“Theorizing Marginality”

Panel of the AILC–ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory at the AILC–ICLA International Congress “Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins” (Tbilisi, 24–29 July 2022)

Wednesday, July 27
15:00–16:30 (Georgia Standard Time), Session 1
Theoretical and Philosophical Aspects
Chair: Robert Young
Divya Dwivedi: Marginalysis
Karin Kukkonen: Thinking Outside the Box: Theorizing Marginality through Creativity
Ivana Perica: The “Imperative to Right” and the Right to Marginality

17:00–18:30, Session 2
Theoretical and Philosophical Aspects (continued)
Chair: Stefan Willer
Esra Almas: Minor not Marginal: Contemporary Jewish Memory Writing in Turkey
Rok Benčin: Fiction and the Conflict of Worlds
Robert J.C. Young: Blanked: Being at the Margin

Thursday, July 28
10:00–11:30 (Georgia Standard Time), Session 3
Minor Literatures
Chair: Divya Dwivedi
Alexandre Gefen: Biofiction: The Worldwide Rise of a Rogue Genre
Woosung Kang: The Idea of Minor Cinema in East Asia
Xiaofan Amy Li: Contemporary Poetry, the Marginal Elite in World Literature?

12:00–13:30, Session 4
Aesthetics, Language and Translation
Chair: Alexandre Gefen
Zaal Andronikashvili: The Language of World Literature: Nikolai Marr’s Utopian Linguistics
Mariam Popal: Listening – A Critical Reading vis-à-vis the O/other of the Self
Tiphaine Samoyault: Translation of Minor Languages: Notes and Glossaries

15:00–16:30, Session 5
Aesthetics, Language and Translation (continued)
Chair: Robert Young
Elisabeth Weber: Margins, Borders, Tendrils, Twines: Thinking with Plants as Cosmopolitics
Stefan Willer: Strange Cases

Followed by the ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory Business Meeting for members of the Committee.

Zoom links:

Wednesday sessions:
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93871325110
Meeting ID: 938 7132 5110

Thursday sessions:
https://nyu.zoom.us/j/96930165477
Meeting ID: 969 3016 5477